Netatmo, a smart home company, last week announced its ecosystem for third party developers. With Netatmo Connect, developers, product managers and marketing professionals can create relationships between their products, services or apps and Netatmo devices.

You may never need rise from the couch or get out of bed again. Home automation is becoming increasingly popular with apps that control ceiling fans, sprinkler systems, garage doors, kitchen appliances, you name it. Along that line of thinking, temperature control company Ecobee has just released a public API that lets third-party apps read, update and poll information about its home thermostats.